Israel shoots down ‘hostile’ Hezbollah drone

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An Israeli navy vessel and helicopter search for the wreckage of a droneJACK GUEZ

Nicholas BlanfordBeirut

Last updated at 12:36AM, April 26 2013

An unidentified reconnaissance drone was shot down off the coast of northern
Israel yesterday in what Israeli officials said was a provocation by
Lebanon’s militant Shia Hezbollah.

But in a short statement, Hezbollah denied it had sent a drone into Israel.

The Israeli military detected the drone in the early afternoon heading toward
the northern port city of Haifa, 25 miles south of the border with Lebanon.
Israeli air force jets were dispatched to the area and the drone was shot
down some five miles off the coast.

Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, the Israeli army spokesman, said that the
drone